Drawn from a conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the landmark Vatican II document, Nostra Aetate (“Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions”), this multi-perspec­tive collection of essays by the world’s leading scholars of theology and interreligious dialogue brings new ferment to the field of interreligious understanding.

Reviews

"This is simply the best study in any language of Vatican II's Declaration on the Relation of the Catholic Church to Non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate. Including essays by the most knowledgeable experts in the field of interreligious dialogue, the volume studies the history of the Declaration, its central teachings, and its reception, and presents responses by scholars of other religions. If you want to know where interreligious dialogue is going, this book is a sure and instructive guide."

Peter Phan, Georgetown University

About the Author

Charles L. Cohen is E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions at UW-Madison and former director of the Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions.

Paul F. Knitter is the Emeritus Paul Tillich Pro­fessor of Theology, World Religions, and Culture at Union Theological Seminary, New York.

Ulrich Rosenhagen, formerly associate direc­tor of the Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, is a lecturer in religious studies at UW-Madison.